Long Island Cemetery Worker Killed When Grave Collapses on Him 27 Feb 2021 A cemetery worker on Long Island was killed Thursday when the sides of a grave collapsed on him as he was leveling the bottom. The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. at Washington Memorial Park located on Canal Road in Mount Sanai, ABC 7 reported. Moments after Rodwin Allicock was buried in the more than seven-foot deep hole, his coworkers tried to dig him out but were unsuccessful. “Allicock, 42, of Coram, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Center,” a press release from Suffolk County police read: